Voice Failed Autotune

Mark-io · Joined: May 17, 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Netherlands

look at the picture posted with the first message in this thread. If you hit the Tune button just once, you get access to this screen and can control which sections to tune / check. Use the voice & band soft knobs to scroll thru the list.

Voices are usually disabled for a reason but if its just the PWM calibration or a bit of filter that doesnt tune there's no reason IMHO not to switch them back on.

wwjd · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info! I poked around the tune screens and 7&8 both say BADFLTR, I think on OCS2, line 5 or something. Obviously that means "BAD FILTER" but what that will affect, I have no clue.

BUT, I AM reading the manual and doing lots of searches instead of just asking noob questions. This new gear got me stumped though. Smile

Mark-io · Joined: May 17, 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Netherlands

wwjd · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

I went through and did all the resets except the wiping/replacing programs and mixes, also updated the OS, now everything comes up GREEN. I can see this forum will be very useful for learning and sharing info. Thanks!

sunny pedaal · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 6:41 am Post subject:

wwjd · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 11:27 am Post subject:

It was 3 or 4 levels old on the OS. The full resets and newer OS fixedit right up. EVERYTHING comes up 'OK' even after multiple power cycles, auto tunes and tests

sunny pedaal · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

great, !
( seems i was a few levels too low on the postreadin' too)
glad to hear it 's fixed, the a6 keeps interesting.

XpanderXT · Joined: Oct 22, 2007 Posts: 137 Location: the flat universe

mine locked up after trying to tune it the other day. First time it ever happened. I rebooted it and then it had no sound output.
I pressed AUTO TUNE again and it went through the tuning process and then played fine.
I have never had this happen before and hope it doesn't happen again.

wwjd · Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:47 am Post subject:

from all my readings, I take away that the A6 can be finicky. When I first got it out of packaging, the SECOND power up I did locked it on the intro screen. Never recovered, not playable. 3rd power up brought it back. I think I had one more failure to launch later on the old OS. On the latest OS now, I have not suffered that issue, but I haven't done a lot of ON/OFF either.

Being complex HARDWARE parts, I suspect it will suffer from a variety of glitches - as the old ANALOGS did. I can live with that, provided I CAN always get it kick started again Wink

PS all my voices are STILL working just great

waketek · Joined: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Seattle

This sucks, My A6 failed to tune voices 5&6 and I have tried everything then I found what I had feared most VCA fail and both voices were shutt off. turning those two voices on by themselves and all I get is static and noise. I have tried soft reset and hard reset but looks like I have a couple of bad chips... Bummer since I bought this New like 2 1/2 years ago and it was in the box mostly due to building my studio and it has only been used for maybe 40+ hrs. Most of what I do I can live with 14 voices but sometimes it is nice to have all 16 in unison for that over the top shred everything lead. I am hoping I can find someplace local that can repair it as I do not want to ship it anywhere... Anyone know how much it costs to get two chips replaced or is it the whole output board that has to be replaced. I wish there were some schematics, I have searched and come up with nothing. Any insight on repair centers in US and possible cost and or schematcis would be very helpful.

Thanks!

Jyoti · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:54 am Post subject:

That's sad news. I'm in the UK so I haven't got any info on US repairers but hopefully one of the more knowledgeable peeps on here can help you out!

Oh, and welcome

sunny pedaal · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:43 am Post subject:

sent you a pm

waketek · Joined: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Seattle

Thanks Sunny! Just replied back at ya.

sunny pedaal · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

indeed probably a voice chip. can be replaced, not neccesarry the whole board.
has to know how to solder well and afcourse should find the sparepart.?

matia · Joined: Jun 10, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: poland

i'm using this synth quite often.

i've bought it last year.
once when it was very hot(30'c)voice 4 and 6 would not pass the tuning procedure.the other problem is;since the beginning voice 15-16 are shut off automaticaly..bad filt.once i played on them and i think i could not distinguish them from the good ones.

but i was worried by voices 4 and 6.the synth could not pass the tuning procedure...it was blocked on voice 4 or 6 trying to tune it...somethimes the bad voice was shut off,sometimes the synth was blocked till i turned off the auto-tune.
the situation was frightening but the next few sessions it was better and better.
i think my andy doesn't like hot weather without temp and backtune on.
i've found my way of dealing with this synth.when i put it on i always put both tuning on...especially when i'm not playing extensively on it.

i'm thinking this synth can go(drift) too far if left alone without both tunings.i'm affraid one day it;s gonna be too far...that'a why

i always put both tunings on....after one hour i can put these off.but if i don't play on it drifts a little bit.so always when i'm leaving my synth for more than 15 minutes i put both tunings.
in general i don't tune it.

i'm thinking the synth must be played to keep it tuned without background and temptun..